Health Care
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AbbVie donates $35 Million for COVID-19 reliefApr 02, 2020 1:00 am - North Chicago-based AbbVie will donate $35 million to help support global COVID-19 relief efforts, the pharmaceutical company announced. For the U.S., AbbVie officials s...
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Blood drive April 7 in Arlington HeightsApr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Northwest Community Healthcare in Arlington Heights is hosting a community blood drive with the Versiti Blood Center of Illinois on Tuesday, April 7. Officials say donat...
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Hospitals tell doctors they'll be fired if they speak out about lack of gear
Mar 31, 2020 1:00 am - Hospitals are threatening to fire health care workers who publicize their working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic - and have in some cases followed through. M...
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Lovell outpatient clinics closedMar 31, 2020 1:00 am - Lovell Federal Health Care Center will temporarily close its Kenosha and Evanston Community Based Outpatient Clinics as of April 1. Providers and staff there have been ...
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Streamwood eighth-graders thank ER staffs, first responders with pizzasMar 30, 2020 1:00 am - Emergency room staff members at Amita St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates Monday were the first — but not the last — to receive pizzas donated by the eighth-gr...
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Horizon donates $1M to Illinois COVID-19 response effortsMar 30, 2020 1:00 am - Horizon Therapeutics is donating $500,000 to the Illinois COVID-19 Response Fund and $500,000 to the Illinois Biotechnology Innovation Organization Institute's COVID-19 ...
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Shuttered Elgin hospital could reopen to treat coronavirus patientsMar 30, 2020 1:00 am - The former Sherman Hospital in Elgin will be reopened to potentially accommodate patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, state leaders said Monday. The 13.7-acre campus a...
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Retired health workers cautiously stepping up to help with COVID-19 responseMar 27, 2020 5:30 am - After 43 years as a family physician in Mount Prospect, Dr. John Sage decided to hang up his stethoscope more than a year ago for a quiet life in retirement. But even be...
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Eton acquires marketing rights to pediatric drugMar 27, 2020 1:00 am - DEER PARK - Specialty drugmaker Eton Pharmaceuticals has acquired U.S. marketing rights to Alkindi Sprinkle from Diurnal Group plc. Terms of the acquisition were not ann...
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Lisle Chinese culture school donates masks, protective gear to hospital, doctorsMar 27, 2020 1:00 am - Grateful Edward-Elmhurst Health and DuPage Medical Group executives received medical masks from volunteers of Ray Chinese School Friday morning. "What I really want the ...